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Parts of a Compound-Complex Sentence

• Parts of a Compound-Complex Sentence
• If you know how to look for the separate parts of a complex-compound sentence, you can understand their structure more easily. We already know the basic rules: there must be at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. There are a few more things to know and then you’ll be ready to write beautiful and grammatically correct compound-complex sentences!

a. Independent Clause

• a. Independent Clause
• An independent clause can always stand on its own as a complete sentence. That means it has a subject and a predicate. The subject will be a noun-phrase and the predicate will be a verb-phrase and describe the subject or what the subject is doing.
• The independent clauses in a compound-complex sentence are called coordinate clauses. Because they are coordinated (by a coordinating conjunction) to work together on equal terms within the same sentence, such as in: “I came, I saw, and I conquered.”

Here are a few examples of independent clauses in compound-complex sentences, with the independent clauses highlighted in green. You can see that they’re related to each other, on more or less equal terms, that they can be complete sentences, and that they are put together using the coordinating conjunctions but and and, like some of the complex-compound sentence you are reading now:

• Here are a few examples of independent clauses in compound-complex sentences, with the independent clauses highlighted in green. You can see that they’re related to each other, on more or less equal terms, that they can be complete sentences, and that they are put together using the coordinating conjunctions but and and, like some of the complex-compound sentence you are reading now:
• Even though she was tired, Abby knew she had to finish the race and she ran to meet her team.
• Usually I take a walk every day while the sun sets, but it was raining today.
• She likes to sleep in but she can get up early if she has work.
• The parts of these sentences that are not green are either dependent clauses or coordinating conjunctions. We’ll learn more about conjunctions soon, and dependent clauses even sooner!